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Fall 2010 USC Viterbi //Engineer University of Southern California • Fall 2010 USC Viterbi //Engineer Data, Data, Data: NEW FORMS, BIG VISION USC’S NEW PRESIDENT // NAE GRAND CHALLENGES SUMMIT // HEALTH CARE VIA MOBILE PHONE IN THIS ISSUE USC Viterbi //Engineer FALL 2010 6 22 24 34 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS PEER REVIEW 18 < INTELLIGENT EYE: Laurent Itti 24 < DATA, DATA, DATA: 2 < Board of Councilors is Teaching Machines to Process NEW FORMS, BIG VISION 3 < From the Dean: Vision 2.0 What They See A look at how Viterbi faculty are PARTICLES 19 < ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS: advancing how we work with data Chongwu Zhou Believes in all its myriad forms and uses. 4 < New USC Institute Targets Diesel Emissions T-shirts Might One Day Power Cell Phones At Viterbi School, 34 < PRESIDENT C. L. MAX NIKIAS 5 < Nanoscale Engineering: < USC’s visionary new leader (and Paving the Way to Deep Space?; 20 A DOCTOR IN YOUR POCKET: Viterbi School’s former dean). Honoring ISI’s Role in Creating Murali Annavaram and our research can spark great things. Mobile Health Care Delivery the Internet 21 < SPOTLIGHT: Ted Berger’s Pioneering SPECIAL FEATURE 6 < Tackling L.A.’s Water Main Blowouts Work in Neuroengineering < UNDERSTANDING CANCER: 36 < THE 2010 NAE GRAND 7 < A Viterbi Professor’s Year at 22 CHALLENGES SUMMIT the State Department Andrea Armani Tackles Cancer’s Genetic Triggers The Viterbi School hosts a ground- 8 < Technology to Recognize YOUR SUPPORT CAN IGNITE THAT SPARK— breaking national conversation to Facial Expressions; Celebrating ALUMNI NEWS discuss how engineering can make M.C. Gill’s 100th Birthday ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR COMPANY’S MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM. 40 < A Trojan at Helm of JPL’s the greatest impact to society. 9 < Viterbi School’s Commencement Mars Program Webcast Goes Global 42 < Viterbi School’s ‘Boy Wonder’ 10 < Chairman Shang-Hua Teng’s PHOTO ABOVE: Your gift helps fund our pioneering research to cut carbon emissions. Consulted for Boeing; Getting a Plan for the CS Department Professor Martin Gundersen’s Develop green technologies. Spur biomedical advances. We change Viterbi M.S.—from Afghanistan 11 < Engineering + Theater: Nanosecond Pulsed Power the world in meaningful ways at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. 43 < The Prasads: Three Generations Quantifying Human Group is experimenting with of Trojan Engineers Behavior; USC Hosts L.A.’s plasma ignition to develop Yet we can’t do it without you. Your gift allows us to perform this cutting- 44 < Tutor Hall as a Startup Incubator? Construction Industry edge research, and it’s likely that your employer will match it. More than Viterbi Grads launch iBart, Glass cleaner, more efficient diesel < Faculty Accolades 12 < combustion engines. This is 1,000 companies sponsor a gift-matching program, so that your donation 45 Calendar of Events 46 < Remembering Arminta Harness: just one of many ground- to USC can be doubled or even tripled in size. All you have to do is ask ON CAMPUS A Pioneering Female Engineer breaking research projects your human resources office for a matching gift form. 14 < Mobile Creations for the 47 < In Memoriam underway at the USC Viterbi Developmentally Disabled < School of Engineering. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM: 15 X PRIZE Lab Comes to USC Q&A 16 < Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos 48 < Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger: 213.821.2730 or [email protected] Delivers Sustainability Lecture Series A Pilot and Hero on Aviation Safety 17 < REACH: Widening the Ph.D. and His Upcoming Viterbi Seminar Recruiting Pipeline; iPodium Class Forges Global Engineering MAIL YOUR DONATION AND FORM TO: Education USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Office of Annual Giving and the Viterbi Society 3650 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089 FROM THE DEAN BOARD OF COUNCILORS ISION 2.0 ENGINEERING: THE ENABLING DISCIPLINE OF OUR TIMES CHAIRMAN Karl A. Jacob III, BME ’91, BS CSCI ’00 Coveroo Dwight J. Baum Private Investor Jay L. Kear, BSME ’60 Retrospective, renewal and The vision that drove these accomplishments origi- Private Investor Dean K. Allen, BSME ’57 re-invention are essential to nated from the need to solidify our prominence in the context Retired, Parsons Corporation Ken R. Klein, BS BMEE ’82 the success of any organization. of a rapidly changing global, contextual and economic land- Wind River Systems, Inc., USC Trustee Gordon M. Anderson, BSME ’54 The marketplace is unforgiving scape, and to lead the quest for new paradigms in engineering Retired, Santa Fe International Corporation Marie L. Knowles, BSChE ’68, FALL 2010 to those who ignore them. education and research. MSChE ’70, MBA ’74 Sonny Astani, MSISE ’78 Dean Are universities subject to Retired, ARCO Astani Enterprises, Inc. Yannis C. Yortsos the same forces? Perhaps not David A. Lane, BSEE ’81 This vision is encapsulated by the statement that we Wanda M. Austin, Ph.D. ISE ’88 in past, quieter times, when a ONSET Ventures Chief Executive Officer, should aim to make the Viterbi School: The Aerospace Corporation External Relations much longer horizon governed Alexis C. Livanos William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Christopher J. Stoy Northrop Grumman Corporation higher education. • First at USC Retired, The Aerospace Corporation Executive Director, However, today’s world is • A Leader in the Nation Alfred E. Mann Ronald R. Barnes, BS ACCT ’76 Marketing and Communications Alfred Mann Foundation, USC Life Trustee spawning change at an unpre- • With Constantly Improving Quality, and Norris Foundation Leslie DaCruz cedented rate, whether it is Excellence in All Our Endeavors Gordon S. Marshall, BS BUS ’46 Carol A. Bartz transformation on a technolog- Retired, Marshall Industries, USC Life Trustee Editor As the university is moving into a new era, with new Yahoo! Inc. Lenora Chu ical, societal or global scale. Fariborz Maseeh Gregg E. Brandow, BSCE ’67 leadership, and as I have been humbly entrusted with Picoco, LLC Contributing Writers And that change brings waves that break at the doorstep Brandow & Johnston, Inc. another term to lead this remarkable school, the vision Robert Bradford, Bob Calverley, of academia with increasing frequency. Bryan B. Min, BSISE ’86 Edgar Brower, BSISE ’59 Lenora Chu, Gloria Hayes, Vanessa for our school is as clear as before. I am adding a Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc. The Viterbi School’s strategic vision requires that we Retired, Pacific Scientific Hua, Eric Mankin, Bob Melisso re-focusing dimension: John Mork, BSPE ’70 embrace that change. We have, and it shows. Simon (Xiaofan) Cao, MA PHYS ’85, Energy Corporation of America, USC Trustee Art Direction and The school has experienced exhilarating growth over • Advancing and Fulfilling the Promise MSEE ’87, Ph.D. PHYS ’90 Graphic Design the last several years, starting with its naming in 2004. of Engineering to Empower Society as the Venture Capitalist Donald L. Paul Lime Twig Group USC Energy Institute Nearly every quality indicator has improved dramatically Enabling Discipline of our Times—in What Yang Ho Cho, MBA ’79 Photography / Graphics Korean Airlines, USC Trustee Allen E. Puckett and compellingly, particularly in the key areas of student, We Call Engineering+ Phil Channing, Chuck Espinoza, Retired, Hughes Aircraft Company, faculty, research and scholarship. David W. Chonette, MSME ’60, ENGME ’64 Brian Morri, Jon Vidar USC Life Trustee Private Investor Following this vision brings vistas of breathtaking views. F. Edward Reynolds, Jr., BSCE ’81, Cover Art Leo Chu MSCE ’84, MBS ’86 Tim Bower We see an undergraduate educational experience enriched Hollywood Park Casino and The Reynolds Group with innovation, entrepreneurship and communication Crystal Park Casino Hotel We are forging new George E. Scalise, BSEE ’88 skills, and enhanced with community and global outreach. Malcolm R. Currie TIAA-Cref Institute paths in interdisciplinary research and scholarship We continue to pursue the fundamental discovery of Retired, Hughes Aircraft Company, USC Life Trustee John F. Shea, BS ENG ’49 in close partnerships with medicine and health new laws, materials, processes and devices in collaboration J.F. Shea Co., Inc. with the sciences. We are forging new paths in interdisci- Kenneth C. Dahlberg, MSEE ’69 “sciences, policy, communications, social sciences Science Applications International Darlene Solomon and the arts. plinary research and scholarship in close partnerships with Corporation Agilent Technologies medicine and health sciences, policy, communications, John Deininger Patrick Soon-Shiong social sciences and the arts. J.D. Investments, Inc. Abraxis BioScience, LLC We are hammering out solutions to vexing problems, Incoming freshman SAT scores have soared and the such as the NAE Grand Challenges, the promotion of Feng Deng, MS CENG ’93 Richard D. Stephens, BS NSMA ’74 latest data for fall 2010 shows another 17-point increase. Northern Light Venture Capital The Boeing Company ” which has been an unrelenting task of the Viterbi School More than a third of all entering freshmen are women. Albert Dorman, MSCE ’62 Mark A. Stevens, BSEE ’81, along with its partners. The freshman return rate to engineering majors is now AECOM BA ECON ’81, MS CENG ’84 And we are imbuing a generation of new professionals Sequoia Capital, USC Trustee at an astounding 92 percent. Daniel J. Epstein, BSISE ’62 with the skills and tools to implement these transforma- On the faculty front, the number of annual Ph.D. ConAm Management Corporation, Parviz Tayebati, Ph.D. PHYS ’89 tions and be the catalysts of change. USC Trustee Camros Capital, LLC Volume 9, Issue 1 degrees awarded here has approached the number of our USC Viterbi Engineer is published In the fall of 2010, this vision is as clear as 20/20. Alan J. Fohrer, BSCE ’73, MSCE ’76 Andrew J. Viterbi, Ph.D. EE ’62 twice a year for the alumni and friends of tenure-track faculty. We have hired a total of 31 new Southern California Edison Viterbi Group, LLC, USC Trustee the Viterbi School of Engineering at the engineering faculty in the last five years, with an increase University of Southern California.
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